Want to see what it would be like to stand on a asteroid? Well, if you were not a human but rather a seven-inch-diameter, just under 3-inch-tall, hopping robot?
A video released Thursday and taken by one of the two bouncing rovers currently on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu — over 200 million miles away from Earth — shows you just this.
“Enjoy ‘standing’ on the surface of this asteroid!” Japan’s space agency, JAXA, wrote on their Twitter post containing the video.
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